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Warbucks Is Back!

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IMPORTANT: If you have any questions or suggestions, read Q&A part at the bottom before asking.

This mod restores & auto-unlocks Warbucks[dontstarve.fandom.com] and also tweaks him in a way he could've been possible balanced by Klei if he wasn't cold-heartedly censored/removed.

So, here he is:


Is an avid hunter

• Spawns with Blunderbuss and 5 Gunpowder.
  
• Proficient marksman: Blunderbuss range is increased by 33%.
  
• Knows a lot about Gunpowder: comes with Gunpowder recipe pre-unlocked and can "refine" Eggs into Rotten Eggs with Rot.
  
• Knows some hunting tricks: additionally comes with hunting-related recipes pre-unlocked (Rope, Boards, Bird Trap, Tent, Spear, Boomerang, Tooth Trap, Bush Hat, Pith Hat).
  
• Enjoys hunting: killing most types of creatures restores his sanity by a value that is equal to 5% of creature's max health, but no less than 5.
  Some special creatures (e.g. bosses) have additional mult applied, he will comment about it.
  This however doesn't work on small insects, bugs, lureplants, clockworks, ghosts, shadow creatures, tentacles and *more or less* civilized forms of life.
  
• Knows how to cut up the meat: for every piece of Morsel, Meat or Monster Meat his prey can possibly drop, he has 25% chance to get an additional piece.

Loves his fortune, but hates being poor

• He loves being rich, so his sanity gain/loss is dependant on total amount of Oincs/Dubloons/Gold Dust/Gold Nuggets he has.
  Each Dubloon or Gold Dust is worth 4 Oincs, each Gold Nugget is worth 10 Oincs.
  
• He has sanity loss of -6.75/minute when not having anything.
  
• This loss is halved (-3.375/minute) when having 1-19 worth of Oincs.
  
• He stops losing his sanity with 20-39 worth of Oincs.
  
• He starts gaining sanity with 40 and more Oincs.
  The exact formula is: 0.0225 * Oinc Amount = Sanity/minute.
  This caps at 300 Oincs (+6.75 sanity/minute), basically giving him free Tam-O-Shanter at the cost of 1-2 inventory slots.
  
• Careful spender: tools made of gold last him 25% longer.
  
• He will, however, lose 20 sanity every time such tool breaks.

Only enjoys fine dining

• He will lose 15 sanity for eating any raw non-crockpot/bad (e.g. monster-based) food.
  
• He will lose half of it (7.5 sanity) for eating dried or cooked non-crockpot food.
  
• He will ADDITIONALLY lose 5/10 sanity for eating any stale/spoiled food.

Normalized loudness: most of his sounds (talking/getting hit/dying) were drastically quiter than sounds of other characters, now he's on par with them.
Normalized loudness can be toggled off in mod options.

Restored censored quotes: his quotes from beta times, the ones about East India Company, hunting, colonizing and other similar stuff are fully restored.
Restored quotes can be toggled off in mod options.

Reworked battlecry: as cool as it is, hearing his battlecry every single time when attacking anything was getting old fast.
Now he will only use it (along with some new commentary) after he kills boss-like or "special" creatures, and will instead use normal combat starting sound most of the time.
With 1.2.0 and higher, battlecry rework can be disabled in mod options.

Proper eating commentary: before Warbucks will comment "Exquisite!" about ANY Crock Pot food, including stale or spoiled food, Wet Goop, Monster Lasagna etc.
Now he will properly comment about quality of food he eats and even give some new comments about bad/raw/cooked foods.

Poorness/Richness level commentary: now Warbucks will comment about changes in his current fortune amount (e.g. reaching sanity regen cap/getting poorer etc).


Treasure Hunter perk (2x durability for tools from Treasure Hunting tab) is removed since now he is a proper hunter.


ThemInspectors from Klei forums for providing beta Warbucks speech file.
Portmanteau from Klei forums for ideas about changing Warbucks battle cry quote/perk description.


Q: Will it work on already existing Warbucks save game ?
A: Yes.

Q: Why you nerfed his sanity regen so much ?!?!?!?!?!
A: It was clearly overpowered and made sanity-management non-issue.
The point is, he should not be better or even close to dedicated sanity character (Maxwell).
Having Tam-O-Shanter worth of sanity regen at the cost of 1 inventory slot (if you use ten- or centa- piece oincs) is still very nice.
Besides, now he can restore his sanity by hunting.

Q: Early game is too hard, I'm going insane on day 2 !!!
A: Pick flowers/seashells, hunt birds/spiders/snakes, you can craft boomerang and spear from the very start if you find resources.
Prioritize finding gold/building crock pot.

Q: Why he haven't got Blunderbuss damage increase/unique Blunderbuss ?
A: I think balancing characters by increasing their damage is a wrong way to go and wanted to keep things simple.

Q: Why there is exception list to his sanity-restoring hunting ability ?
A: Because killing these creatures doesn't look like hunting.

Q: Why there is no additional chance to drop Drumstick/Fish parts ?
A: It makes sense for Gobblers and other birds to drop only 2 drumsticks.
He is a hunter, not a fisherman.

Q: Why he doesn't increase his "richness" meter by having gems/relics/something else ?
A: I don't want to add additional checks in the code and overcomplicate the whole thing.
Let's just assume he obsessed with gold and money.

Q: Why he now loses less sanity by easting cooked/dried non-crockpot food ?
A: It makes sense judging by his quotes and makes early game exploration less of an insanity-fest.

Q: Can you add this or that ?
A: This mod is considered feature-complete, so it's unlikely for me to add things you want.
Impressions and bug reports are welcome, however.